1st. The purchase by citizens or corporations in the United States of securities or properties of any kind (outside of commodities actually shipped, otherwise accounted for) in other countries; 2nd. The payment of interest or dividends on American securities and properties owned by foreigners; 3rd. The payment of loans due foreigners; 4th. The payment of passenger and freight rates to foreigners owning foreign vessels; 5th. Money expended by Americans touring abroad; 6th. Remittances by foreigners in the United States to their friends or dependants abroad; 7th. Loans by the United States to foreign countries, which during this war are reaching gigantic proportions, or loans by U. S. banks or citizens to foreigners; 8th. Remittances from the United States to pay for foreign securities marketed in the United States, which have reached very large proportions during this war. In like manner all of these unrecorded factors or any of them may apply to any of the foreign countries and transfer money or credits to the United States. For instance: 1st. The purchase by foreign banking corporations or individuals of American securities or properties; 2nd. The payment of interest or dividends on foreign securities or properties held by American capitalists; 3rd. The liquidation of loans negotiated by Europe or foreign bankers in America; 4th. The payment to Americans of passenger and freight service on American ships by foreigners; 5th. The money expended in America by foreign persons traveling in America; 6th. Remittances to persons within the United States from foreign friends or relatives; 7th. The lending of money to the United States, or to citizens, bankers, or corporations of the United States by foreign Governments, bankers, or citizens who might make loans on American bonds or American evidences of debt; 8th. The payment for insurance due to American Insurance companies. |